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by preg_match 6d ago
The effects of efficiency gains and inflation should eat most of the cost of those new features, I presume. I mean, computerization makes a lot of things easier and cheaper, and computers are very cheap now.
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by preg_match 6d ago
Flock doesn’t defend anyone from anything, it’s just surveillance technology. The defending is done by other people, who may or may not use the surveillance for good. Historically, surveillance is used for good and evil. Certainly, Nazi G
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by preg_match 6d ago
White British people are not native Brits, a term that basically means nothing anyway. Britain invaded and colonized many other countries over the course of centuries - of course those black people are British now. Where do you draw the lin
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by preg_match 6d ago
You can most definitely produce high-quality code via an LLM, particularly if you test your code aggressively and review it. Yes there are a lot of shoddy PRs, but that's nothing too new. The problem with LLMs is the amount of code t
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by preg_match 6d ago
I would think to catch people's eye so they look in the first place, sort of similar to an ad. Which is also why we see AI slop work well in ads. And before AI slop, we had corpo slop. Just bright colors and wacky animated characters w
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by preg_match 6d ago
Even thinking through the code is not complete because our brains make mistakes. They also make assumptions, thousands of them, that you don’t know about. It’s tricky, because every thought you have has an entire sea of preconceived notions
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by preg_match 7d ago
Uber wants you to think their drivers are just contractors, precisely for this reason. Having employees has a cost, a brand cost and liability cost. So, everyone is a contractor. But that’s not actually how it works. These are Uber employee
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by preg_match 7d ago
I'm saying that if did not lock down, then there would have been millions more deaths, and then an even more severe lockdown would occur. It's an inevitability, that's just how life and the world works sometimes. Sometimes ba
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by preg_match 7d ago
Well it's been barely a year, but basically all commercial software, and most open-source software, is engineered with AI assistance. It's not all slop, you just aren't looking around. Ask any engineer at any company - are th
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by preg_match 7d ago
Those are, comparatively, small problems for the medium of a poster. You have to understand that 99% of people who will see the poster will view it for <5 seconds. They wont sit there and count the stars. And, of the people who do examin
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by preg_match 7d ago
LLMs are very good at writing code. The reality is that they are able to write code faster, at higher quality and with fewer bugs, with correct prompting. They are also really good at code analysis, penetration testing and discovery, and ad
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by preg_match 8d ago
I kind of touched on this. Lockdown was a reaction. If it didn’t happen, then the thing it’s reacting to would have been worse, and then lockdown would have been worse.
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by preg_match 8d ago
Sorry, I’m saying this from a US perspective, where we had 1 million or so covid deaths. We also had lockdowns, but it was state dependent. The point is: if the lockdown didn’t happen, would the outcome be better? Remember, it’s not like Co
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by preg_match 8d ago
This sounds like a lot, but it’s actually not very much. I mean, one singular almond requires 1,000 gallons of water. Beef requires shit ton, too. Go vegan for a few weeks and you’ve just negated all your AI water use for the rest of your
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by preg_match 8d ago
Because AI removes you from analytical thinking, and the brain is a muscle. The less you think, the less you are able to think. Programming is inherently analytical and logic-driven. It’s a great brain exercise, even if the code has no valu
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by preg_match 8d ago
The lack of human connection has been a trend for many decades now, covid just accelerated it all at once. Not like there was much choice, lots of people died, we did what we had to. The communities that did exist were always running on fum
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by preg_match 8d ago
Of course kids and young adults resent it: a part of their childhood and formative years sucked ass. But the resentment isn’t towards the handling, it’s towards the reality. It sucks covid happened and it shouldn’t have. But there’s nothing
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by preg_match 8d ago
You’re writing this from a business perspective, I’m going from a consumer perspective. If I’m a consumer and I want to find a niche/quality/cheaper or whatever product, then I should research. And ad IS NOT going to optimize for
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by preg_match 8d ago
Correct, most of Linux user land targets API stability, not ABI stability. Windows targets ABI stability because applications are typically distributed as binary blobs. Most applications on Linux are open-source and built per each distro, s
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by preg_match 8d ago
It really depends on the application. The reason web is so successful as a platform is because it’s rich enough for most applications, and inherently cross-platform at an OS level. And Re: CUDA: yes if it doesn’t make sense then dont use it
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by preg_match 8d ago
It is when there’s no concrete reasoning behind it. The reasoning provided here is “well I don’t like it, therefore it must be bad!” That kind of thinking would be acceptable if we were like… 8 years old. But as an adult, having that reason
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by preg_match 9d ago
He’s not a junkie, he can quit at any time.
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by preg_match 9d ago
I wouldn’t say sadistic, but the military command is very desensitized to death. When all you do is basically kill people, then killing more is like pouring a cup of coffee. It’s just part of your day. Remember that, prior to this, the US m
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by preg_match 9d ago
Yes but there are business costs to using high-level proprietary tools and libraries. If you write your app using win32, you won’t be able to port is very easily. You’re also stuck with whatever bad or bizarre decisions Microsoft made. It’s
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by preg_match 9d ago
Ads are universally bad, even for the people who like them. They don’t actually like ads, they like consumerism and the act of spending money when they don’t need to. Which isn’t surprising, it feels good. So, why isn’t “discovering new thi
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by preg_match 10d ago
These comments are so annoying and they pop up on literally any news Mozilla releases. Like… ever. No, Firefox is not malware because it includes an OPTIONAL feature. Yes, chrome is 100x worse than Firefox when it comes to data privacy. Y
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by preg_match 10d ago
Well cars kill people, granny using the password “password” does not. We can’t prevent all levels of stupidity and carelessness. If people want to have dumb passwords and download malware, then so be it. You think they can’t do that today w
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by preg_match 11d ago
I also don’t think these companies are lying at all, but I definitely think they’re training on all your data, toggle or not. It’s truly trivial to “anonymize” and distill your prompts and model output. They could use just about any off-the
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by preg_match 12d ago
The panic was, frankly, underblown at first. The first iterations of Liquid Glass were truly awful. It’s now okay, after a lot of tweaking and a LOT less “glass”. Now we have more frost. But Liquid Glass is still broken at a conceptual leve
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by preg_match 13d ago
For civil suits, you typically need the affected parties to sue. Otherwise, who claims the damages? But this isn’t just civil, it’s criminal. Hacking is a criminal offense. This could be a CFAA violation. That’s landed people life in prison

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